Mama(e) in Translation

2 sons, 2 languages, 2 countries, 2 "worlds" (work/home), 2 PhDs. Where translation and "in-between-ness" have become a way of life. Now with 2 cats & 2 Universities!

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Incredible Timing

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We drove back home last night from our vacation. Tomorrow, we have to be at the closest immigration center at 8 am for our our biometrics ...
Saturday, July 01, 2017

Super-Relaxing Week 7

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Preface:  I just realized this reads TOTALLY like a "product placement" blog post. This is hilarious because it's been nearly ...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

It's Paid

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Just a quick update on this pending issue -- the money came out of our checking account, so that means the checks were "cashed" a...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Guess What?

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Well... we had used an older form (although not expired according to the writing on the bottom, NOT TRUE!) to submit this and all the paper...
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Friday, June 09, 2017

Week 4: Exercising and Helping Refugee Family

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This has been the most intense week yet, bordering CRAZY intensive! And I just had to create two new labels: Exercising and Helping/Volunt...
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Friday, June 02, 2017

Week 2 Recap, Week 3 almost recap

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I've been busy with all kinds of things lately.                      ... this was the original first sentence of the post... But week...

Paying Up

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OK, so this is it a quick note to inform you that we finally decided to "pay up" (1450 -- which would pay for airfare for both of ...
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Monday, May 29, 2017

"Hypnotized"

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This "late adopter" thing is annoying at times. I wish I'd seen this song/videoclip on March 2 when it came out. You may hate ...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

"I am not throwing away my shot"

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I am a very late adopter, so two years isn't that long when you consider how long it took me to adopt other items such as cell phones (...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

14 Weeks of Break

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I just realized that there are 14 weeks of break until I go back to work. Well, technically 13 because the first week just ended! And I ju...
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Monday, May 15, 2017

FINALLY DONE!

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I am so relieved that I am done. I regret (as always) that I procrastinated grading their online homework so much and left it for the very l...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017

So close to done!

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Just a quick update as I take a moment to breath while grading. (Warning: this is a most boring post about grading!) I am this close t...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

In Closing (last post on the unsynchronized trips)

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I don't know the dates of next year's trips yet, and maybe they won't be back to back like this year. One thing I do know, we...
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Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Reunited! (and now it's time for grading) ;-P

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Yesterday our family was reunited again in a very unlikely place, an airport!! I was glad to see my oldest son again after two weeks away fr...
Monday, May 01, 2017

Glimpses of the "Day of the Lost Photos"

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scheduled post :-) Here are some photos my youngest son took last year on May 31st, the day I took hundreds of gorgeous photos which got a...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

One more Unsyncronized Travel detail

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An addendum to the last post !   It turns out that when my son returns from Costa Rica tomorrow night, our group will already be close to...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

The Month of Disconnected Travels

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Today my youngest son arrives from his six day trip with the bell choir. Tomorrow night (more like Tuesday early morning), our oldest leav...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

My Youngest Son's First Trip Solo

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This morning I sent off my youngest son in his first bell-choir trip. Three years ago I blogged about the first of such trips for our famil...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Excuses, Excuses, Excuses!

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I should be working on my garden, right now, and getting some sun on my shoulders to get lots of vitamin D... and I will, in a few minutes. ...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Crazy week of little sleep

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Quick update because I need to go to bed. Last week was pretty crazy! It started with a super intensely packed & exhausting weekend be...
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I'm a Brazilian immigrant (used to say expatriate, have problems with this word now), living in the U.S. since 1996 with my husband and two sons (born in March 2002 and May 2004). I'm a mother, first and foremost, -- mamãe in my mother-tongue, hence the (e) of the blog title -- but after "ten years and two sons" I finally finished my Ph.D. in literature in 2008. After six years away from teaching (including a year home/cyber schooling my sons - 2009-10), I'm finally back in higher-education. I've been blogging here for eleven years, so welcome to my site and feel free to stay for a while and look around. Our lives are a roller coaster, never lacking in ups and downs! ;-)
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